CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1406

Published: Jul 29, 1998 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1406
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Linux	Redhat	5.1 (including)	5.1 (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=90221104526185\u0026w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=90221104526192\u0026w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/372

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